Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00663585
Intensive Meditation and Migraines: Effects on Health and Well Being
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 36 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 75 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Participants completing training in intensive meditation and continuing frequent practice for one year would experience reduced frequency, duration and severity of headaches along with improved awareness of the triggers of their symptoms, improved quality of life and mental health, improved heart rate variability, and reduced inflammation.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Vipassana Meditation | 12 day retreat where participants learn to meditate |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-02-01
- Completion
- 2014-06-01
- First posted
- 2008-04-22
- Last updated
- 2016-07-29
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00663585. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.